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I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props.

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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
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It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very pop and it's very different now. When you make it as pop and as soft as it is, it lacks its integrity. It lacks its accountability. It lacks a lot of other things that came from that dangerous time in hip hop.
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I've been pulled out of my nice new car and laid out in the street by the police, interrogated and then have them get in the car and roll off leaving me lying in the street without even saying 'Get up.' The humiliation that they can put on a black man because they determine that you ain't got the money.
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I was a pretty bad person early in my life.
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I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years.
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When you hit the wall, it's how fast you come back.
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I'd say people are victims of circumstances and they're limited to the opportunities that they see. Even though there might be more opportunities, you might not see them. You might just think, I don't have any options. You usually go to the dark side, in that situation.
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Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
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It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.
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Winners have to absorb losses.
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I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.
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I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
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I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something.
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I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.
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Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.
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Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.
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...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.
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in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape
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I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's just too dangerous.
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